The Angry Crayon - Expendable 2009/2010

Expendable 2009/2010

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[INDENT]Stallone is Expendable
Sly, Statham and Jet board action flick.
by Chris Tilly, IGN UK

UK, November 6, 2008 - Sylvester Stallone has announced plans to write, direct and star in an action film entitled The Expendables.

Jason Statham will co-star, and Jet Li is also in final negotiations to appear in the film, which will revolve around a team of ruthless mercenaries.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the story follows their efforts to enter a South American country and overthrow its ruthless dictator.

Nu Image/Millennium Films is overseeing the film, which is the first in Stallone’s two-picture deal with the studio. The second is expected to be a further film in the Rambo franchise.

We’re hoping for more of this in The Expendables.

“Making films with Nu Image/Millennium gives me as the director the opportunity to make the films I envision,” Stallone said. “I am happy to be partnering with them again and am looking forward to working with Jason and Jet.”

The Expendables is expected to shoot on location in Costa Rica and Louisiana in February.

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Good lord, the level of testosterone and growth hormones could kill a third world country. O_o

Gongaaaaaaaaa

I just can't get over what a piece of shit The Expendables was. This movie has been occupying my thoughts for the last couple of weeks because I can't come to grips with how much it sucked. It doesn't make sense to me that the cast wouldn't engage in some kind of suicide pact after watching it and realizing that they have made the world demonstrably worse with their terrible movie.

They must have had a team of doctors and a mobile blood bank at the set to care for the actors as they cut themselves between takes, as it's the only thing that could possibly help them escape from the pain of having to recite their atrocious one-liners and pretend that it doesn't make them want to murder the bed-shitter that wrote them. One can only hope the UN is drafting some kind of resolution in response to condemn the people that saw the final cut and still released this crime against humanity upon the world.

It's truly one of those rare movies that managed to hit the sweet spot of being a total piece of shit without becoming entertaining again with its sheer badness - like some sort of local maximum on the continuum of cinematic mediocrity.

Final word: Jarringly bad.

I'm only 26 minutes into this movie and I'm forced to agree. I think I might watch the rest of the thing with the sound turned off. This movie could have been pretty cool, if it were completely rewritten by someone else. Anyone else. An elementary school kid could have written better dialogue. Really, I can't see how they let production of this movie continue once they saw how it was turning out, assuming they couldn't have told how bad it was going to be just by reading the script, and actually had to see it played out to get a sense of how horrible it is.